oxalic acid does Not affect iron absorption, new study

[coco]

well, guess we've been concerned about nothing. i'm switching back to sesame seeds with the hulls then... i never did give up spinach.

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v62/n3/abs/1602721a.html

[Ginger]

The oxalates have been bred out of supermarket plants to the point that they are hardly there anyway.. wild foods contain much more but even so they are not a big deal.